How can you move a list from Excel to Sage?

Question

I have a column in Excel, which I need to move from Excel to Sage.

Answer 1

You can't easily. Sage runs on Linux Excel does not. Your best bet would be to write a python script to export the list to a file then import that into excel after downloading it from the Linux box.

Answer 2

1. use OpenOffice to open the offending Excel file on Linux
2. save column to text file
3. open text file in Sage (see this thread for details about opening text files in Sage)

Answer 3

Sage is python application, install a module for reading xml files (there are some) and there you go ...